Course Content:
	
			
	INTRODUCTION
	
			
	One thing that makes highly effective individuals different from everyone else is their ability to think, plan and act strategically when they negotiate and manage conflict. Indeed, strategic management and leadership best practice consistently identifies highly effective negotiation and conflict management skills as crucial for both personal and organisational high performance and success.
	
			
	 
	
			
	This hands-on training course on Negotiation & Conflict Management in Organisations provides an insightful and illuminating strategic analysis of negotiation and then details highly effective practical negotiation and conflict management strategies and tactics that drive successful outcomes. Delegates will leave this training course with a richer and deeper understanding of the way they negotiate and manage conflict and will have significantly improved their practical ability to control and add value through the negotiation and conflict management processes across a range of scenarios and contexts.
	
			
	 
	
			
	Not only do these skills potentially lead to significantly better deals and commercial agreements, they also enable teams to be managed better, allow more constructive interactions with customers, clients and colleagues, and help manage dealings with others even when they are difficult or aggressive negotiators.
	
			
	Objectives
	
			
	The aim of this training course is to develop and enhance your practical skills that will allow you to:
	
			
	 
	
			
	Adapt your negotiation and conflict management skills building on your own personal strengths and weaknesses
	
			
	Control the negotiation process more effectively by developing an in-depth understand of the key elements of the process
	
			
	Improve your confidence to better deal with difficult negotiators and achieve collaborative value adding results
	
			
	Expand your range of available negotiating strategies and tactics and your ability to use them effectively
	
			
	Plan easily and effectively for every negotiation using a highly effective strategic preparation template
	
			
	Mediate your own disputes and negotiations and become a more skilled and effective negotiator and conflict manager
	
			
	Personal Impact
	
			
	By the end of this training course you will have built upon previous experience to become a more confident and skilled negotiator and will be better equipped to deal with conflict in a more constructive and controlled way.
	
			
	 
	
			
	By the end you will:
	
			
	 
	
			
	Understand what differentiates skilled negotiators from less skilled negotiators and apply this learning to yourself
	
			
	Have learned how to understand and build upon your personal negotiating strengths and manage your weaknesses
	
			
	Have the ability to exert greater control over the negotiation process
	
			
	Have enhanced your own confidence to successfully engage in any negotiation or conflict situation
	
			
	Have the confidence to deal effectively with difficult people in a range of different scenarios
	
			
	Have enhanced vital leadership, management and personal skills that will impact on performance across all aspects of your professional life.
	
			
	Day 1
	
			
	Breaking Down the Negotiation Process
	
			
	The Fundamental Requirements of Negotiation
	
			
	Power Dispersal and the Development of Negotiation Theory
	
			
	Causes of Organisational Conflict
	
			
	Conflict Escalation and Steps to Prevent It
	
			
	Managing Conflict – The Five Primary Strategies
	
			
	The Dichotomy of Negotiation – Competing and Cooperating
	
			
	Gaining Personal Insight - Negotiation Style Assessment
	
			
	Negotiation as a Mixed Motive Process
	
			
	Day 2
	
			
	Implementing Practical Negotiation Strategies
	
			
	Effective Practical Negotiation Strategies
	
			
	Competitive Value Claiming Negotiation Strategies – Cutting the Pie
	
			
	Opening Offers, Anchors, Concessions
	
			
	Cooperative Value Creating Negotiation Strategies – Baking a Bigger Pie
	
			
	Identify Interests, Information, Diagnostic Questions & Unbundling Issues
	
			
	Package Deals, Multiple Offers and Post-settlement Settlements
	
			
	Categorising Negotiation Outcomes
	
			
	Day 3
	
			
	Preparation Templates, Sources of Power & Key Mediation Techniques
	
			
	Preparation Template - Planning to Negotiate
	
			
	Internal & External Preparation, Synthesis and Situation Assessment
	
			
	Identifying and Leveraging Negotiating Power
	
			
	Mediation in Context – Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation
	
			
	Mediation as a Facilitated Negotiation
	
			
	Practical Mediation Techniques to Resolve Disputes
	
			
	Dealing with Confrontational Negotiators
	
			
	Day 4
	
			
	Communicating to Maximise Negotiation Effectiveness
	
			
	Communication Style – Packaging Information for Maximum Influence
	
			
	Active Listening Skills in Negotiation
	
			
	Communicating through Body Language
	
			
	Interpreting Body Language and Nonverbal Behaviour
	
			
	Communicating within Negotiation Teams
	
			
	Improving Negotiation Team Performance
	
			
	Ethics and Negotiation
	
			
	Day 5
	
			
	International and Cross Cultural Complexities
	
			
	What is culture and how does it affect negotiating norms?
	
			
	Advice for Cross Cultural Negotiations
	
			
	Unique Features of International Agreements
	
			
	Building a Deal – What to Remember?
	
			
	Applying Learning to a Range of Organisational Situations